Evening Reading: What a Day!

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  Welp. iPad certainly is a high quality product that will be difficult to compete with. : SpaecKow
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    shoehorning a desktop OS into a tablet just isn't going to be compelling to most. The advantage that the ... : GloriousCow
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      I tried to tell everyone that and got flamed for it. : JohnnyRey
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        thats because nobody likes you : GloriousCow
        • =( i know : JohnnyRey
    • No way. : hankyJR
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      i want a functioning PC though. i don't want to buy a dumbed down device when i could get a better netbo... : dantastic
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        iPad does what I want to it 1000x better then some shitty netbook. : JohnnyRey
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          That's what people don't get. It doest do everything, but what it does' it does a 1000x better than a net... : edgewise
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            Depends on your needs. : Fred Garvin
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              yeah, pretty much. i can't think of a possible use i'd have for an ipad when I already have an android p... : dantastic
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                I will just say that an iPad is more convenient for many of the tasks you do with your netbook. It doesn't do 1080p out and it doesn't play COD4, but no touchscreen is going to let you play COD4 and if you want a full OS (like Windows 7) then you will never want a tablet.
                
                Netbooks are great for many things, but an iPad is, in my opinion, far superior for browsing the web, watching youtube, and consuming content. It's easier to hold, move around the house, and since your netbook is "high end" it has an inferior battery life and weights a lot more.

                Apr 29, 2010 9:48pm PDT
                I will just say that an iPad is more convenient for many of the tasks you do with your netbook. It doesn : WhatIsThisFor
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          i just took nothing more than an 8 dollar hdmi cable and plugged my "shitty" netbook and streamed some tv... : dantastic
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            What kind of netbook? The slate won't be useful because Windows 7 sucks as a touchscreen OS. : WhatIsThisFor
            • asus 1201n. i actually did my research before i bought my netbook. they just released or are about to r... : dantastic
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            What kind of netbook can play CoD4? I thought most of them have Atom processors and no real video card to... : BlackCat9
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              asus 1201n. it has a duo core atom chip and a nvidia ion graphics processor. it plays it on 1024x768 ... : dantastic
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                http://www.anandtech.com/show/2896/5 15-25fps on the lowest settings? I think I'd just skip those game... : BlackCat9
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                  Your consoles or reasonable PC wouldn't be available at lunch and otherwise on the go like she was descri... : DinK
                  • I wouldn't really play those games on a lunch break, but I'd probably play Plants vs Zombies, CivRev or W... : BlackCat9
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                  heh in the end i know its still a netbook. i didnt really buy it to play those types of games, i bought ... : dantastic
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                    It is pretty impressive that it can even run semi-recent PC games, I'll give you that, and it's not a bad... : BlackCat9
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                      i suppose i could if i wanted to. not really interested in that really. would be pretty expensive eread... : dantastic
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                        an e-ink display does make the most sense for that. I also wonder if the fact that a netbook would sit u... : DinK
                        • There are cases for the iPhones that work as stands. It's very comfortable to use in bed or on a couch, f... : BlackCat9
                        • jen's got a nice sony pocket reader. thing is damned light. : dantastic
                        • I don't get the hangup over the ipad's weight. It's comparable in weight to a hardcover book and is a lot... : edgewise
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            how many of those things would you be happy doing without a mouse or keyboard : GloriousCow
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              all of it but the typing at work (ability to use a bluetooth or usb keyboard would still be crucial to me... : dantastic
              • For those things you mention, a real notebook is much much better. For lighter usage, an iPad is better. ... : Serpico74
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            The HP Slate was never going to be good because Windows 7 is a horrible touchscreen OS. If they make an O... : Serpico74
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              Oh Serpico, just let them have their silly half a laptop. We'll never convince them otherwise. : BlackCat9
              • There are so many shitty products out there. I guess someone has to buy them, how else could there be jus... : Serpico74
        • I don't know about you but my 901 Eee is fucking awesome. : MercFox1
        • Just let me have two websites open at once so I can see scores for the Tigers and surf the web AT THE SAM... : Jimbo Ro
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        Don't you already have a PC? I have a desktop for PC stuff but on the road, or in the living room, I nev... : WhatIsThisFor
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          I like the idea of an iPad but then I have to rely on third parties to do what I'd really want to do with... : ieGod
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            Diego it's $100. And you can write open source apps. Latestchatty is open source. You people drank too mu... : multisync
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              I'm talking about the tools being open source, not the apps. Also I don't have a mac, which means I can't... : ieGod
              • It really is annoying that the SDK isn't available on Windows :( : WhatIsThisFor
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            What do you want to do with it? I can totally understand not liking it because it's closed, that argumen : WhatIsThisFor
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              I love writing code. Off the top of my head somethings I'd want are some unraid management apps that inte... : ieGod
              • I don't know what kind of management tool you'd want to create but you can get a pretty awesome fake-app ... : ThomW
          • Wait for the Google tablet man. : Arctic Fox
      • That's not what this device is : multisync
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  makes sense with the Palm purchase; WebOS retooled, gives them more time to come up with something compel... : massdev
  • I'm very happy that HP bought Palm. It means that there will be three good players (and operating system... : WhatIsThisFor
• I am forced to buy an iPad now, I was holding out for MS Jobbie : Tattoo Trav
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  oh man. i think i'll stick with my android phone. i don't want a tablet if it means it's going to be a ... : dantastic
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    I don't see why you would want a full OS interface on a touchscreen device, there is plenty of tablet PCs... : ovrlrd
    • A lot of the people who complain about the iPad not being functional enough remind me of the complaints t : WhatIsThisFor
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      SO I CAN DO THINGS ON IT OTHER THAN RUN APPS THAT COULD BE RUN ON A CELL PHONE. it's not that hard to un... : dantastic
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        Your dream product is now a reality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop : emcea
        • Or, better, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_PC : Arctic Fox
        • Indeed, some of use just want that in a tablet format, without the keyboard, and preferably with some UI ... : uncleanmonkey
      • We're fine with people wanting something other than the iPad, we just would like you to stop phrasing it ... : BlackCat9
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        Pretty sure you can run ANY of the iPad apps on a phone. Sure you can run iPhone apps on the iPad. : DogDharma
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          You can't run iPad apps on the iPhone. They don't even let you see them in the App Store. : BlackCat9
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            To be fair, dantastic said "could be run on a cell phone" and not "does run on a cell phone. The point i... : DinK
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              the slate promised to be more than that and that's why this news is kind of disappointing. although i do... : dantastic
              • Yeah, I have a smartphone that I love plus I'm around a PC all the time whether at work or home, so I'm n... : DinK
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            So if you have both devices, and you want the same program on both, you have to pay for two separate ones... : GreatGooglyMoogly
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              No, you can either run the iPhone version on the iPad with pixel doubling, or if the developer wants to t... : BlackCat9
              • Ah, thanks for the clarification. : GreatGooglyMoogly
      • Why would you ever use a tablet for any of those things? : Danny5225
      • iPad apps don't run on a cell phone... VPN works on iPad. Document creation tools exist on iPad, and ... : WhatIsThisFor
  • You kill me : multisync
  • have you used an ipad before? I have no real desire to buy one and I kind of didn't care about it but I ... : mikecyb
• I wish some of the software ideas seen in those concepts will be seen in some apps : spiderfill
• Gasp. I am so shocked. </sarcasm> : ThomW
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  i guess they will remake it as a PalmOS device? : grendel
  • Almost guaranteed. I was betting on this as soon as I heard the deal. : Caoster007
  • I hope this is what happens : packav
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    I would love for this to happen. But, um - doesn't sound like a very safe bet from a marketing angle, the... : Durajim
    • Are you sure about that? Have you used the OS? I have and it's very nice. I think the interface is eve... : WhatIsThisFor
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  There's always the JooJoo! : edgewise
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    oh joojoo, what can't you do : GloriousCow
    • Eat pork? : edgewise
• I just want a Tegra 2 slate with a transreflective screen. Something like this: http://www.engadget.com/... : TrptJim
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  That makes sense, now, though; WebOS would be a much better base for an HP slate. : Conan
  • Yup, makes perfect sense. Can't wait to see it. : Serpico74